Photograph of survivors of the POLLUX and TRUXTUN shipwrecks in 1942, St. Lawrence, 1992
color photograph
PHOTOGRAPHSCanada, Newfoundland (province), Saint Lawrence
circa 1992
emulsion on photographic paper
overall: 4 x 5-7/8 in.
Photograph; color photograph of survivors of the POLLUX (built 1939) and TRUXTUN (built 1920) shipwrecks in 1942, St. Lawrence, 1992; group of men standing at cliff top monument commemorating the POLLUX and TRUXTUN shipwrecks in 1942, monument is near Chamber's Cove; handwritten on back "L TO RT 'WAG' GREENFIELD, (SIGNALMAN + BUNK MATE) ARTIE APPEL/ BILL HELDT, LANIER PHILLIPS"; from Henry Strauss transcript in Sound Archives: "That would have been from the left: Warren Greenfield (signalman), Appel (signalman), Sigmund, me, ah.... I don't know his name, Seamans (the Ensign from the TRUXTUN) ... the very back ... is Lanier Phillips."
2004.81.175